Quotes out the door in minutes, not days
A precision machine shop handed us its whole quoting process. We got right into the business, found the bottleneck, and built the system that fixed it.
Every quote ran through the owner, the one person who could read a print and price it right. Requests piled up for days because quoting competed with running the floor, and a slow quote reads to a customer like a shop with no capacity. The pricing logic lived entirely in the owner's head.
We mapped the whole path from a quote going out to getting paid, and found the bottleneck was the front office, not the machines. We built a quoting co-pilot that reads the incoming drawing, extracts material, dimensions, and tolerances with the source shown for one-click checking, then matches the part against the shop's own prior quotes: this looks like the job you ran last spring, at this price. The owner reviews and sends. Nothing auto-prices, because the owner's judgment is the product.
An eight-week build that started by ingesting two years of the shop's historical quotes, so the co-pilot spoke in the owner's own numbers from day one. We embedded weekly.
Quote turnaround went from three days to same-day. The owner reclaimed roughly a day a week. Win rate rose, because fast, confident quotes beat slow ones. We did not replace the expert. We bottled the expert's instinct, so the business stops depending on one tired person at nine at night.
